137: Are you Lin You? Do you dare to fight me on equal footing?

Liu Yaowen nodded solemnly.

During the time the two were discussing, a dozen or so climbers had already cycled through the Heavenly Ladder.

Without exception, none could even pass the tenth floor.

Just as the crowd was lamenting how perverse this trial was.

A handsome young man with sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes stepped forward.

He clenched his fists and stood beneath the Heavenly Ladder.

He roared loudly toward Lin You in the sky.

"Lord Lin!"

"How many floors must I climb to fight you!"

His voice slowly spread through the Void Realm, heard clearly by everyone.

Even Lin You was no exception.

Looking at the youth, Liu Yaowen frantically searched through various memories in his mind.

Finally, he whispered, "Cui Yi, a descendant of the Cui Family from a Fifth-Rank Star Domain, and the only survivor of the Cui Family."

"Three hundred years ago, the Family was exterminated because they provoked the Liuguang Clan."

"He was supposed to die with them, but the Cui Family used their lives to forcibly protect him, sealing him into an Innate Embryo before he was even born."

"He only recently emerged from the Seal, but was captured by a Patrol Envoy for secretly investigating the Liuguang Clan and your background, Lord Lin, before being released later."

"He is now twenty years old, with a cultivation at the Martial Immortal Realm."

Lin You couldn't help but raise an eyebrow upon hearing this.

This background story... this personality... Tsk.

Either a Prodigy or a complete idiot.

Family destroyed, bearing a blood feud alone, sealed... the buffs are practically maxed out!

Most importantly, although this guy is only at the Martial Immortal Realm at twenty, considering his situation.

He had not a single bit of cultivation resources after his Family was destroyed.

He could only rely on Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi to progress.

Calculated this way, his Aptitude is actually quite decent.

Facing Cui Yi's challenge, everyone looked at him as if he were a madman.

"Where did this guy pop out from??"

"Does he have a death wish? Challenging Lord Lin, he could be crushed with a single finger!"

"This guy must be crazy!"

"Kill him, Lord Lin!"

Looking at the other's figure, a phrase couldn't help but echo in Lin You's mind.

An ant trying to shake a giant tree.

As a being in the Great Saint Realm, he didn't even need to lift a hand; with just a single thought, someone like this would die tens of thousands of times.

But he was very curious.

What exactly could make a guy bearing a blood feud speak so boastfully?

No brains?

Lin You shook his head inwardly; he didn't think so.

A faint voice rang out in the Void Realm.

"Even if you climb ninety-nine levels, you wouldn't be a match for a single move of mine."

"Why seek death?"

Cui Yi buried his head deep, clenching his fists, "I understand, I understand all of that!"

"Lord Lin!"

"If I can reach you, will you fight me at the same realm?"

A smile curled on Lin You's lips.

Interesting.

He parted his lips slightly, "A reason."

Cui Yi looked up, his eyes filled with unbelievable brilliance; that almost twisted paranoia was exactly the best nourishment for a Genius!

"I want to... give my Family an explanation!"

"Three hundred years..."

"Though I couldn't see or hear, I could feel the wails of my relatives before they died."

"Since the moment I was born, I have lived for revenge."

"But..."

Cui Yi clutched his head helplessly, veins bulging on his arms.

"But when I finally emerged from the darkness and could stand on my own, the existence I wanted to destroy with my own hands day and night."

"Was completely ruined because of you..."

"My life no longer has a meaning for existing..."

"It doesn't even... have the value of proof!"

"If I can defeat you in a battle of the same realm, then it proves I could have destroyed the Liuguang Clan with my own hands!"

"Those vibrant lives wouldn't have died in vain, and I, Cui Yi, would not have failed their expectations!"

His voice echoed through the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, deafeningly loud.

The lonely youth clenched his fists and opened his crimson eyes.

He raised his foot and climbed the Heavenly Ladder without looking back.

Just as he stepped onto it, a piercing demonic sound came as if accompanied by a Soul tremor.

But Cui Yi's expression didn't change in the slightest.

Two floors... three floors... he climbed ten steps at an extremely fast speed.

"How... how is that possible!"

"Does the effect of the Heavenly Ladder have no use on this guy?"

"No!"

"The Dao Laws of the Heavenly Ladder still exist; he's enduring it by sheer force!"

Above the dome, a smile curled on Lin You's lips as he quietly watched the figure continue to climb.

Twenty-nine floors... thirty floors... Cui Yi's pace didn't stop for a moment, sweat falling from his forehead like raindrops.

Even without knowing what he had experienced, one could feel the mountain-like weight on his shoulders.

—Boom.

The Heavenly Ladder emitted a dull roar.

Countless sharp sword winds whistled out, tearing at his body like a death by a thousand cuts.

Again and again..

Again and again... "Useless, you're just a waste!"

"You are the shame of our Cui Family!"

"Cui Yi, you've disappointed us too much. Why did we use our lives to save a useless thing like you back then?"

"Trash among trash!"

"You can't even get revenge, what use are you? What's the point of you living!"

"Go die..."

"Come join us... you should have died long ago..."

Forty-one floors.

Heart Demons sprouted within Cui Yi's body, his expression gradually twisting, mixed with pain and silent screams.

That inextinguishable Sword Qi tore his body apart again and again, piercing through his flesh and blood.

In just a moment, Cui Yi's body was already bright red.

He gritted his teeth until they rattled, continuing forward.

Forty-nine floors... fifty floors!

"Heavens, the first guy to step onto the fiftieth floor!"

"He can directly enter the Six Departments and be rewarded with a Dao Fruit. Are you kidding me!"

"How on earth did this bastard do it? He's clearly just an ant at the Martial Immortal Realm!"

Lin You's eyes showed approval; he said nothing, quietly watching the figure climb.

Five-eight floors.

Cui Yi's body trembled like chaff; every step he took made his bones rattle and pop.

The sound of fracturing was enough to make anyone feel pain just by listening.

Yet he gritted his teeth and endured it.

Sixty floors!

The dense pressure seemed to solidify into substance.

—Crack... Cui Yi's shoulder suddenly exploded, and his entire right arm instantly turned into a bloody mist!

He let out a low groan of pain like a wild beast, roaring and howling.

"Shut up!"

"All of you, shut up!"

"I.. I will get revenge... I haven't failed you!"

"No, don't speak!!!"

Under the growth of Heart Demons.

Cui Yi's entire face turned blue and purple.

Crimson blood spilled from his shoulder, dyeing the entire Heavenly Ladder bright red!

Eightieth floor!

The entire place was silent.

No one dared to even breathe loudly, for fear of disturbing the occurrence of a miracle.

They watched the figure on the Heavenly Ladder in dumbfounded silence.

The whole world was shocked!

Cui Yi's body was covered in bloody holes, and both his arms were gone.

He raised his leg again; his knee instantly let out an overburdened wail, and everything below his calf shattered.

But his eyes seemed to be filled with unwillingness and anger.

He actually pushed forward against the pressure by sheer force.

Ninetieth floor... in the entire Sixth-Rank Star Domain, one could hear a pin drop!